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adpreps

adpreps is the plural of adprep.

Meaning of adprep

Noun

adprep (plural adpreps)

  1. A word that functions both as an adverb and as a preposition.
    • Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb and a primary, invariable adverb, the latter including the heads of reduced prepositional phrases but excluding adpreps.2000, Claudia Claridge, Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English: A Corpus-based Study

Questions about adpreps

What is adpreps the plural of?
Adpreps is the plural of adprep.

Words near adpreps in the dictionary

  1. adpositional phrases
  2. adpositionally
  3. adpositionhood
  4. adpositions
  5. adprep
  6. adpreps
  7. adpress
  8. adpressed
  9. adpresses
  10. adpressing
  11. adpression

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